Really good autumn day at Long Nab today. Sab’s Gull, Long-tailed Skua, Brent Geese, Yellow-browed Warbler, Short-eared Owl, Bramblings, Redwings and Robins arriving. Kingfisher a bonus patch tick. #UKbirding #nature www.trektellen.org/count/view/1...

The world needs more of this. #conservation #birds #nature www.theguardian.com/books/ng-int...

‘Birdwatching is close to rapture’: Margaret Atwood on why she has given C$1m to avian research

Award-winning novelist celebrates late partner’s love of birds with gift to establish the Graeme Gibson chair in avian biology

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#RNLI Heroes.

I don’t know whether this model will work or not, but it’s interesting to see people trying different approaches at landscape-scale rewilding/restoration projects. #rewilding #nature #biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Britain’s Yellowstone’: restoration project aims to take the greed out of land acquisition

Investors in Emblehope Moor will get their financial returns – and then it will be given to community or charity owners

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As important a voice today as he ever was. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...

Wendell Berry, US author, farmer and environmentalist, dies aged 92

Author and Kentucky native, who celebrated the farming world of his home state and warned of the excesses of industrial society, died at home

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Just heard of Wendell Berry’s passing. Incredible writer and essayist. The opening essay in this collection ‘A Native Hill’ from 1968 is one of the best pieces of writing about landscape and what it means to belong and connect with a place that you’ll ever read. #booksky #nature #landscape #farming

Spurn's Little Tern colony has enjoyed a record-breaking nesting season in 2026:

Spurn Little Terns enjoy record-breaking season

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Make Britain wet again. #naturesky #rewilding www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rewilded land remains green amid drought-stricken English countryside, images show

National Trust’s Holnicote estate says restored wetlands and rivers offer proof of resilience to drought, wildfires and flooding

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The Haywain 2026

August is a good month to see Manx Shearwaters in British waters (weather depending), often passing coastal watch points as the breeding season comes to an end. Amazing birds. Heard great things about this book. #ukbirds #nature #booksky #shearwaters

Most lowland woods in England are criss-crossed with drainage ditches, dug to help intensive forestry exploitation. Most woods no longer managed, but drainage still maintained for convenience of dogwalkers etc., losing ponds, bogs. Re-wetting woodland to buffer against droughts should be a priority.

Guy Shrubsole@guyshrubsole.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Australia has a completely different set of ecosystems to the UK. In Britain, you don’t fight fire with fire: you fight it with water. We have allowed landowners to comprehensively drain our peat bogs, remove farmland ponds, riddle landscapes with field drains. Make Britain Wet Again!

Next read. #booksky #nature #wildlife

Do large parts of Europe have to become uninhabitable for politicians to start taking the climate crisis seriously? Does a major European city have to be destroyed? How many deaths are required? How big does the obvious economic impact have to become? Insane! www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

More than 200,000 people flee or lock down as wildfires sweep France and Spain

‘Highly unpredictable’ blaze forces evacuation of Cap Ferret on French coast and Spain declares national emergency

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Suffolk is currently under a hosepipe ban and drought, with farmers reporting no effective rainfall for 11 weeks, poor crop yields, reservoirs nearly empty, and they're terrified of their combines bursting into flames. www.eadt.co.uk/news/2626620...

Caroline Goldsmith@goldcaro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Great news everyone. Our Reform-led county council has solved the problem.

Flying back into the UK yesterday it was very clear that England isn’t such a green and pleasant land anymore. Everything was parched, yellows and browns across the fields rather than greens. Lakes and reservoirs low. When will politicians wake up to the scale of this? #climatecrisis

Great morning exploring the Jandia Plain/desert this morning on Fuerteventura. Black-bellied Sandgrouse the highlight. #naturesky #wildlife #birding

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Dark Green Fritillary at Jugger Howe today. Bee Orchid and distant Golden Plover (pair) on Fylingdales. So interesting watching that part of the moors recover after last year’s fire. Juv Wheatear, 3 Quail and 3 Red Grouse also of interest. @northyorksbirds.bsky.social @nybirdnews.bsky.social

This is a great story and it’s somehow comforting to know there are still regions of our planet that are unstudied and under-explored. #wildlife #conservation www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘No one believed it’: how a YouTube video accidentally proved Libya’s sand cat really does exist

Wildlife photographer Mohammed Almuntasir had no idea what he had found until scientists started to get in touch

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This from 2007 BBC documentary 'Climate Change: Britain Under Threat', the late Jay Wynne predicting >30C daily for half of August 2050. With 24 years still to go, we'll already have two heatwaves far exceeding 30C in the past month - not in August high summer, but spring/early summer. Terrifying.

Richard K Broughton@richardkbroughton.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Oh. Now upgraded to 39 C. For two days.

Threatened upland birds including Eurasian Curlew, European Golden Plover, Black Grouse and Common Snipe are already benefitting from a major peatland-restoration project at Y Migneint in Eryri National Park:

Restored peatland boosts Wales's declining upland birds

A large-scale peatland-restoration project in Eryri National Park is already benefitting wildlife, with Eurasian Curlew, European Golden Plover, Black Grouse and Common Snipe recorded in restored areas.

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A bit of beach combing yesterday at South Gare produced a few interesting finds. Green Sea Urchin, Grey Topshell and the remain of a European Lobster.

Landscape scale rewilding is crucial for biodiversity and the fight against climate change. It isn’t the only answer but projects like this one are vital. #rewilding #nature #biodiversity www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘People start connecting the dots’: why an investment fund is rewilding a North Yorkshire estate

Rebalance Earth is investing in Broughton Sanctuary to generate financial, environmental and social returns

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Common-spotted Orchid at Long Nab, North Yorkshire today.

Tracking studies are helping shed light on the extraordinary migrations of European Rollers and the international co-operation needed to conserve them. One of Europe's most colourful birds, the species has declined significantly across parts of its range in recent decades.

BlueSky people.. a couple of months ago my debut collection of poetry was published by @razurcutsmag.bsky.social. Reviewed by @snackmag.bsky.social and supported by these legends. Support indie publishing and give it a go. #BookSky #poetry razurcuts.com/shop/a-decad...

Stumbled across this newly fledged blackbird at Hilla Green, North Yorkshire this morning. Feared the worst but I’m pleased to report it was seen later on being fed by its mother under some gorse. Also spent time watching a family party of Marsh Tits in the same area. #ukbirds

It’s #WorldBeeDay today - we must create habitat and support our bees. Vital parts of our ecosystems, human survival depends on them, and a great opportunity to celebrate one of my favourite bird families - Bee-eaters. Little Bee-eater and Swallow-tailed Bee-eater taken in Senegal, 2024.

Had this sat on my shelf for over ten years. It’s about time. #booksky

Recently spent a few days in the Parc Natural de l'Albufera south of Valencia. Fascinating place and habitat - salt marshes, sand dunes and pine forests, rice fields. #birds #ornithology